The Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSPTT) has wel­comed the ad­di­tion of five new drugs to the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) but hopes to meet with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe to dis­cuss fur­ther im­prove­ments to the na­tion­al ini­tia­tive.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) has con­demned the de­ci­sion to re­align the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) un­der the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, warn­ing that the move threat­ens the bu­reau’s in­de­pen­dence and risks po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

El­der­ly res­i­dents of Palmiste say they are liv­ing in fear of a po­ten­tial tragedy, as 49 of the 60 fire hy­drants across their eight-block com­mu­ni­ty are out of or­der.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of hypocrisy over their crit­i­cism of the gov­ern­ment’s new OFAC li­cence for the Drag­on gas project, say­ing the coun­try is now on a “vi­able path­way” to pro­duc­tion.

The Drag­on Gas Agree­ment of­fers ben­e­fits for Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Unit­ed States, and Venezuela, ad­vanc­ing re­gion­al part­ner­ship, en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty, and eco­nom­ic growth, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­nied claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion spent over $120 mil­lion on Drag­on Gas project ne­go­ti­a­tions with noth­ing to show for it.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro vis­it­ed To­ba­go this morn­ing, on his first of­fi­cial trip since as­sum­ing of­fice, say­ing his main goal was to meet and mo­ti­vate of­fi­cers serv­ing on the is­land.

A Port of Spain man was ar­rest­ed on Thurs­day af­ter­noon af­ter re­turn­ing a stolen chain to its own­er.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter, Dr Kei­th Row­ley, has de­fend­ed his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s han­dling of the Drag­on Gas Project, re­spond­ing sharply to crit­ics, in­clud­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, who claimed that hun­dreds of mil­lions were spent with noth­ing to show for it.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a 63-year-old man whose de­com­pos­ing body was found at his Chase Vil­lage home on Thurs­day morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the death of a four-year-old girl in Sea Lots, which oc­curred on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

A shoot­ing in­ci­dent at a home in Ste Madeleine in the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing has left two rel­a­tives dead and two oth­ers in­jured.